Work Area

By default, the AVEVA Catalog window is displayed with the General discipline and Home tab selected. The main parts of the AVEVA Catalog window are:

• The title bar of the module window, displays the quick access toolbar and the name of the current project.

• Quick Access Toolbar: options on the tabs and the project menu can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar for convenient access. Some commands are located here by default. The default location of this toolbar is above the tabs to the left of the title bar, but it can be moved below them if required. Refer to Quick Access Toolbar for further information.

• Overall Project functionality: accessed from the Project tab, the displayed fluent User Interface (UI) provides access to a number of key commands and facilities.

• 3D Graphical View - displays the design model graphically as the model is built. When required the Messages window is also displayed in the 3D graphical view. Refer to Messages for further information.

Catalog Explorer - provides an easy-to-use, graphical method of exploring the Catalog Database.

• Message Log window displays user and system messages created by the application including alerts and errors.

• Status Bar: located at the bottom right hand corner of the AVEVA Catalog window. Displays status information such as errors, warnings and information.

• Command Window is used for executing standard commands and Programmable Macro Language (PML) functions.

• AVEVA Catalog Tabs: most commands, facilities and utilities of AVEVA Catalog are accessed from a number of tabs.